Off by eight.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Wed Nov 19 04:31:00 CET 2003


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [031119 03:23]:
> Possibly a better term would be failsafe image.
> 
> What happens is that if everything looks good the fallback image
> hands control to the normal one.  Otherwise it keeps control.
 
Note: IIRC, the "normal" image is called with protected mode already
running, so it needs a different startup code (entry32.s instead of
entry16.s?) 
Also, the failsafe image does not do cmos option handling afair?

Stefan

  
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     Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
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